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Title: Architecture: 19th and 20th Centuries by Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Henry-Russell Hitchock ISBN: 0-300-05320-7 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: A dated survey of Modern Architecture
Comment: Unfortunately, this book doesn't hold up very well over time. Hitchcock's study of Modern Architecture is spotty and not very well organized. The most interesting chapters are those on 19th century architecture, which Hitchcock seems most comfortable with. However, the later chapters leave much to be desired. His understanding of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural system is very weak. It is little more than a walk through some of his more famous buildings. He has a better understanding of the European modernists, but here too he presents them in a superficial way that leaves more questions than it does provide answers.
Hitchcock and Philip Johnson have been credited for bringing the European Modern Movement to America with their exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1932. They dubbed it "The International Style," a name which has stuck but doesn't do justice to the many currents that ran through Modern Architecture at the time. Hitchcock tried to develop these ideas further in "Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." He provides a wide array of sources, but very little that binds these ideas together. One can find much better overviews of Modern Architecture by Kenneth Frampton and William J.R. Curtis.
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Title: Authentic Decor: The Domestic Interior 1620 - 1920 by Peter Thornton ISBN: 1841881090 Publisher: Seven Dials Pub. Date: 30 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design by Galen Cranz ISBN: 0393319555 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia McAlester, Lee McAlester, Juan Rodriguez-Arnaiz, Lauren Jarrett (Illustrator) ISBN: 0394739698 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 May, 1984 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture) by Nikolaus, Sir Pevsner ISBN: 0140137149 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1975 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright (The Norton Library) by Peter Blake ISBN: 0393315045 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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